7 Reasons why we're Home Schooling / World Schooling
We're selling up our old lives in the UK for a life in the sun where we plan to live a high vibe life. The move is all about raising our vibrations and frequency and living from the heart. We hope to share bits that help you live your own high vibe life too. If you follow us already, drop us a message in the comments. It's honestly so good to know our readers. If you don't follow us, hit the subscribe to our mailing list button to get updates as we go.
After a series of signs from The Universe, a spiritual / awakening journey. We soon embark on our plans on home schooling / world schooling journey, full time, as we slow travel world schooling as we go. As a family that have never home schooled before, you can follow our journey as we find our feet with EVERYTHING 'move' related, living the life we dream.
Why Home Schooling?
There are many reasons why people want to home school. There are an estimated 50,000-100,000 children in the UK which are home schooled. A number that is rising year on year by 80% each year. The reasons are varied and many. Worldwide it’s 5 million and growing.
I wrote the post that you are reading here all about our reasons for home schooling ages ago when we were first thinking about taking the kids out of school. And it sat in my drafts folder ever since. It seemed like such a far out concept to me back then when we were thinking of doing this journey and documenting it on our blog. But it’s really not. There is a growing number of home schoolers and world schoolers. A whole tribe of them, everywhere we go.
Back then we were really ‘not the sort’ of people that home schooled. It felt hippy-ish to me. The hippies in one camp, the self entitled nomad people in the other. How judgemental I was.
We had time hungry businesses with our UK life, that left us with very little time to spend with our kids, let alone any time to home school them. We were a million miles an hour of action. Actions that work towards goals and plans. Living very from the head. No time to just sit with ourselves and listen. No time to sit with the kids and just ‘be’. We lived to work. Our lives ran around the businesses. The whole move / home school journey - even though felt so right for us - was fraught with worry, complications and just not knowing. Even though intuitively we knew this life move was a must for us as a family. And we knew that it was SO right for us. The whole idea of how we were going to get there seemed uphill and full of fear. It’s the feelings of fear that so many of us live with in our day to day of rule following and abiding by a system that keeps us in our place through fear of sticking out, fear of judgement, fear of getting things wrong. Which gets labelled up as anxiety btw (a concept, a ‘thing’ that I'll explore on this blog another time) and then it's this fear that holds so many amazing dreams at bay. It’s the fear that kills you.
On a natural skincare course in Ubud.
Now that we are on our way with the process of de-registering the kids from mainstream school, I re-read that blog today with a view to just posting it straight away without any edits.
But on re-reading it I was shocked at how much fear I was still holding onto, even though we’d made our decision. We’d been on a spiritual journey and had felt as though we had our shit together and our minds somewhat in check. What came across in that post was the total mental confusion and living from my head space that I was still in that poured out onto the page. It made me proud to see how far we’ve come with living from the heart. It’s still a journey, this whole awakening ‘thing’ but in trusting the process and trusting our intuition and the divine plan, I can speak from experience here in that once you get really clear about what you really want and start taking actions, it all falls into place. And it really does.
The reasons I’d listed were not reasons that even exist for us anymore. So rather than pressing that post button, I wanted to work through the ramble and the fear. I was blaming the education system a lot and feeling very angry about how our children are not represented and shoe horned into a system that doesn’t work for all. It read quite angry and I’m just not angry and I never really was. We’ve been living lives that were just not right for us (something many can probably relate to). And that’s ok now that we’re changing them. I guess I was feeling pretty boxed in back then. In re-reading that post today, I sat with every single bullet pointed reason, for a moment, felt every single feeling of fear, anger or whatever it was, sat with it, then let it go. Like a breath. Each fear blown out of me in the air. This is the new me. The old me would have gulped those fears down. Bottled them in. Then done the thing anyway. Fear never stopped me, ever. But what we hold onto in our emotions, can manifest into our reality. And I can't have that, knowing what I now know about manifesting that dream life. And I know with every fibre of my being that what is to come for us is right for us at this time.
I’m sure you’ve heard of the saying ‘thoughts become things’ (The Secret) and our Subconscious thoughts create 80% of our reality. It’s all true. It felt amis to simply press that post button from any place of fear, anger, repression. Our reasons have changed. They just ‘are’ now. And they come from the heart. A place of only good, where being boxed in or backed into a corner is not the real reasons. We’d always felt like we had to justify our reasons too. Like be prepared for a fight, with everyone. And that’s just not the case. If you feel like a home education is right for your child, you have the right to educate in whatever way you feel is right for your child. Anyone can home school. You don’t need to be qualified. You do not have to follow the National Curriculum. It’s your fundamental right as a parent to educate your child in way that you see appropriate. Your child does not have to be tested to a specific schedule nor adhere to any requirements of a traditional school.
In re-reading this post and re-writing it slightly I can see and share clearly our reasons as to why homeschooling is right for our children at this time in our lives. It’s the only choice for us right now and we come at our reasons from the heart and for what’s right for us as a family at this time. And we’ll re-assess at many points I’m sure of that. And we’ll talk it though with both kids throughout. One of the reasons we’re doing this is to give the kids a voice through choices. Children currently have no voice or say in what or how they do things. I’m not down with that. We’ve got to start letting our children listen to their intuition from early on and be guided by it instead of being guided by authority and rules for authority and rules sake. More so, we’ve got to start listening to our own intuition as mothers as to what is right for our children. If something feels off it usually is.
7 real reasons of Why we plan to homeschool our children.
So, back to the blog. There are many. Many reasons why we are taking our children out of school and homeschooling them, despite having never done it before. Here's some of the reasons why we chose to home school our kids (one is currently 15, the other 7 currently):
First up we want happiness. These faces all smiling and living their best lives. How life should be. We feel happiness comes on living life at our pace, on our terms, in a way we intuitively feel is right. Happy mum is happy children. A child's happiness is not measured by how much they are achieving or how they measure up to their peers, but in how happy the mother is. This is why self love, self care and going within are all topics I care deeply about and am going to be focusing on the blog for you ladies that have lost your way in Western life as working mothers trying to have it all and do it all. You are a Goddess and you are wonder woman, but we're pushing in all the wrong places - the places society has shoe horned us into (more on this some other time).
2. We want to have the flexibility in what, when, how they learn - we work for ourselves online and have very flexible lives. Having to attend traditional school does not fit with our flexible life. We can be anywhere in the world but find ourselves feeling stuck in a place where we don’t need to be stuck. These feelings of being ‘stuck’ are not conducive to living a high vibe life. They drag us all down and we’re all about the frequency and high vibrations. We choose what subjects they learn. If the littlest is not engaged he loses interest, daydreams in space and becomes frustrated in himself. Give him something he’s engaged with and by God, he will learn all day long. The eldest is doing her GCSE’s. Does she need to sit all 10 GCSE’s all at once on set dates, to be passed by a certain date? We say no, she’ll actually get them before all of her peers but at a pace that suits her. Concentrating on one at a time, dedicating approx 200 learning hours per subject to pass at a good level. Sometimes less, sometimes more. The difference with home schooling is, that she decides her subjects and her pace. If she feels ready to sit an exam earlier, she does. This gives her confidence in knowing herself and when she’s ready instead of the anxiety and stress that our 16 year olds go through in mainstream ed.
We are learning about volcanoes with the littlest right now. Instead of learning in the classroom, we go to a volcano on a sunrise trek and cook our breakfast from the steam. This is learning! We take some soil in a bottle. We then learn about all the volcanoes in the world within the ring of fire. We look at geography and plan a list of places we'd like to go next. We draw their flags and learn their capital cities. The topics flow from what we're into right now. But in real time, having just ate breakfast on one and gone for a swim in one of their hot springs afterwards to rejuvenate the spirit after having exercised our legs and determination. It takes a lot of grit for little legs to climb. A multitude of learnings from a morning out.
3. Creativity can be encouraged - our 2 kids are very creative. This is not celebrated or encouraged in traditional schooling. Making them feel less adequate and not good about themselves. Even though creativity and free thinking is more important for us as a family of entrepreneurs that set businesses up. We want to celebrate our kids creativity and promote their talents rather than box them in our kick these talents out of them. All kids are different and we feel school moulds kids to be the same. We do not want this limitation for our kids. Back to the volcano trek, The eldest gets out her watercolours that she packed and paints the sunrise, that she will submit for her ongoing Art iGCSE. The youngest talks about colours of the sunrise learning obscurities such as Coquelicot and Aureolin. Stuff no 7 year old would ever care about, until you give them an experience they can relate it to. You see how this works....
4. More family time - we use home learning as a time where we come together. Rather than fighting against each other, forcing the kids to do their home work or checking that they followed some irrelevant rules at school. We make a coffee, the kids have a smoothie and we get down to learning together after morning yoga, sungazing, and gratitude list. Learning should be beautiful. But most days in mainstream education our kids were not really wanting to go in the mornings and coming home unfulfilled and unhappy. The whole process for us is fluid and ever changing. We're not fixed by a curriculum. But our topics are vast and varied. We're engaged and have a love of learning.
5. Schedule harassment - self explanatory. Being involved in the relentless rat race of rushing around, traffic, chaos is really not our thing. Every day is like ground hog day in getting out of the house and rushing around to partake in a system that we feel is intuitively wrong. It lowers our vibe. The stress levels are not required.
6. Healthy sleep patterns and life balance - the kids wake when their Circadian rhythm says. This creates balance in their hormones and emotions. Their bodies are in sync. They can flow with life and create healthy patterns. Instead of waking when they’re knackered. Life is really much more beautiful waking up when the sun wakes you up and the birds sing. Instead of the buzz of an alarm clock after a bad nights sleep. It happens and we flow with the ebb and flow of life as opposed to the rule of 8.45 start. Incidentally, we’re up much earlier when home schooling because we WANT to learn. Mostly at actual sunrise to catch the first hour of the suns light codes. We have a zest for life and we don’t want to miss a drop. I work better in an evening, where my ideas are flying, my motivation is on fire. Si works better in a morning, he gets a million things done before the world wakes up. It's all about finding what works best for you and going with that.
7. The kids learn practical skills of living in the real world. They meet other digital nomads and speak to them about their careers. This broadens their horizons in terms of what’s possible with earning and future jobs market. 80% of jobs that exist today will not exist when our kids are entering the jobs market. We should be introducing them to coding, web3, AI, digital marketing, earning online, SEO, product development, sustainability, language, decentralised finance, alternative medicine. Rather than teaching them archaic ways of following rules and learnings that haven’t changed in 100 years. If my kids are happy being worker bee’s, then I’ll be happy for them. They still get to choose to be worker bee’s, doing a varied world schooling / home schooling education. But we feel they’ll be set up and ready for the jobs market of the future that awaits them.
8. Ok I know I said 7 but there's more. Home schooling gives the child a voice through choices it empowers them to make their own choices by thinking them through and taking action. If it’s the wrong choice we can look over it and choose differently next time. Traditional schooling doesn’t give kids any choice or say in their own lives. They just have to do the work, shut up and put up.
9. It reduces negative peer pressure. Our eldest has had a lot of problems in secondary school with idiots. She’s an empath and doesn’t need anybody else’s negative energy on her, but has been forced to endure and put up with idiotic behaviour from kids that the school cannot exclude or deal with. The whole bullying issue that is rife in schools at the moment does not favour the bullied. With schools being tied to adhere to policies and ways of dealing with 'problem' kids. Whilst the good kids get on with it, struggle on and take on a whole load of trauma. It is not fair, it is not necessary. There is another way.
10. Finally by home schooling our kids, we are not pushed into medication that we don’t want them to have. This is self explanatory and I'm definitely not going down the route of discussing anything V related on this blog. This blog is all about the high vibes. It's not the alternative news and I won't be sharing any stats on mrna/vaccinations. Needless to say, we maintain our right to body autonomy for ourselves or our children and home schooling allows us to be not pushed into medication through pressure or fear.
And there you have it, the main reasons why we are home schooling. Some may resonate with you, some may not. Life is for living. We’re looking forward to living our life in a way where we can thrive.
We home schooled on our month in Bali to see how it could work for us. It worked. Life was harmonious. Of course the kids still argued. Fought. We're not the Von Trapps, but we came together and left wanting more of this beautiful new way of living. We can see how we've been doing things wrong all of our lives and we're ready to start full time.
If you are thinking about home schooling your kids, but don’t know where to start, I thoroughly recommend The Centre of Excellence’s diploma on Home Schooling. We did it before embarking on our decision and it helped us when making the decision of whether Home Schooling was right for our children. Click on this link to use my refer a friend referral to sign up for account with them to get your Free Home Education course.
Blog post coming soon A Typical Day in our life as a Home School Education family in Bali
